?chrysarobin, benzoic, resorcin, salicylic, etc., etc., and iodine liniment, all of which were ineffectual. I had also a good deal of X-ray treatment, which was perhaps successful in certain parts, certainly unsuccessful in others. Early in the course of the affliction I noticed a close connection between it and sweating?it often recrudesced after violent exercise, especially in damp hot weather. Recently I noticed a recurrence after wearing or clothing when I had been sweating very little or not at all, and I have accordingly made experiments which to my satisfaction establish the fact that the rash was caused by khaki not by sweating, for I have sweated profusely wearing other material than khaki, both rough and smooth, without a recurrence of the rash. My original belief that the sweating caused the rash is due to the fact that I generally wear khaki (as most people do in the East) when shooting or hill climbing or riding. I shall be glad to answer any question you may care to put to me if my doing so would be of any use.?- Yours, etc., H. WILKINSON, ext., i.c.s., British Envoy at the Court of Nepal. The British Legation, Nepal, 22nd July, 1929. (Note.?We are glad that Mr. Wilkinson has raised this point in our columns, for our own experience during the war was that khaki drill may be extremely irritant to some persons, though not to others. New-comers to India are frequently told to wear a cholera belt, and always to have next to the skin. Anyone who has lived for several years in a hot and humid climate knows that such advice is nonsense. One should wear the lightest possible texture of clothing next to the skin; a very light cellular vest, perhaps, and a light twill shirt. We have shown Mr. Wilkinson's letter to Lieut.- Col. H. W. Acton, i.m.s., who is in charge of the Skin Clinic at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine. He remarks that there arc two factors concerned in such cases: (i) the condition of the skin with regard to irritability, some persons being far more sensitive than others; and (?) the texture of the cloth next to the skin. Many persons are quite unable to stand rough in contact with the skin.?Editor, I. M. G.)

KHAKI DRILL AND SKIN IRRITATION. To the Editor, Tire Indian Medicai, Gazette. Sir,?The following facts may possibly be of interest to your readers and of use in cases similar to my own. For several years I suffered from an irritating skin disease without examination of which, pathological " scrapings, was diagnosed variously as tinea" or "lichen." Various doctors prescribed various ointments